If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.

The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic.

Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.

You think education is something to be done when all else fails?

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.